At the Kent Masters T&F Champs on 10/11 September, SAC's octogenarians dominated their category with prolific competitor Ron Denney contesting nine of the events. Perhaps Ron's best result was his 400m win with a championship best performance of 107.41, but he was also first in the 800m and Discus, and second in the 100m, 200m, 1500m, 5000m, Hammer and Javelin. In the 100m, 200m, 1500m and 5000m, the winner was our own Richard Pitcairn-Knowles, who won all four of his events.

Our only other competitor at the meeting was Paul English who was second in his two events, the M40 100m and shot. The results are here.

Tony Waldron won the September handicap but Grace Manzotti is still leading the series after nine races. The details are here.

Dan Witt writes:

"This year's Eridge 10 mile x-country on Sunday race saw the welcome return to racing of Allan Lee.

"We had good conditions underfoot apart from the numerous bogs and water features dotted around the seriously hilly course.

"The beer and cakes were a welcome sight at the end as you'd imagine!

"Alan managed 5th place and 2nd M40 in impressive time of 1:07:21 considering how long he's been absent from racing. I just about managed to improve on my time from last year by almost two minutes and came in 21st place at 1:19:12."

Completing the quartet of Sevenoaks AC runners, Clair Thornton was 185th in 1:47:34, with Mike Allen 186th in the same time.

The results are here.

And James Graham was 11th overall and 1st M60 at the Thanet Coastal Marathon on the same day with 3:16:18, our only representative at that race or the accompanying half. The Marathon results are here.

Sally Shewell was first W55 by a big margin as twenty Sevenoaks AC runners tackled the hilly Weald St Georges 10k in windy conditions. Chris Desmond led the team home and was 2nd M50, while Simon Hallpike was 2nd M60.

Grace Manzotti reported:

"I did enjoy  the race, well in a kind of way: it was tough and I was glad to cross the finishing line!
"It was lovely to see so many people I knew from Sevenoaks there and chat before the race. I had been warned about the hilly second half and the mad steep hill at the at last  km.  It was my first time doing this race so I didn’t know what to expect. I found it hard, and the hill at the end is very steep and it is a bit of a killer to have such a hard hill at the end. I am very pleased with my time 51.15,  but I think I need to thank Lionel for that. He was chasing me all the way and also overtook me at some point and I then chased him back and I was trying not let him catch me so I think I went faster than I would have done if i hadn’t felt chased! I thought he was going to overtake me again by the hill but I managed to get up the hill and do a sprint finish when I saw the finishing line. I did enjoy that! Getting the medal from Kelly Holmes was good and then myself Sally and Lionel stayed around to soak up the atmosphere of the village green and to see Sally get her trophy from Kelly Holmes and to take a photo.
"I will do this race again!"

The SAC results were as follows:

The full results are here.